There will always be unintended effects of new
technologies. Some of these unintended effects will
be fortuitous and some less so (Nardi and O?Day,
1999, p. 41).
Fixed-feature space is one of the basic ways of
organizing the activities of individuals and groups. more...

Participation in schemes of formal
co-operation between library services has
been part of management strategies for nearly
a century. In trying to pin down dates
serendipity revealed the following statement
in Libraries at Large which emerged from the
US National Commission on Libraries in the
late 1960s. more...

Although it?s been over a year in the making,
the timing of the release of this issue of the
journal could not be more appropriate. The
recent economic downturn has left public
libraries scrambling, to find not only alternative
sources for funding, but also proof for taxpayers
of the worth of their local libraries. more...

Computer based information systems
represent an ever-growing component within
healthcare organisations. There is now more
than ever a high demand to develop effective
systems that will manage healthcare
information. Parallel to that there is even
greater need to develop more reliable and
efficient ways to use information to assist in
making viable... more...

The focus of this issue is, at the one time, both reflective of legacy collections and
critically dealing with the future of coherent information access. The topic of
repositories is one which many librarians would consider to be uninteresting and
indeed, unworthy of current consideration. more...

This e-book is concerned with metatheories in Library and Information Science (LIS) and especially with the philosophy of science of LIS. Metatheories are theories about the description, investigation, analysis or criticism of the theories in a domain. more...

Health sciences librarians no longer only find themselves staffing reference desks or building collections. Their activities range from being active participants in health care teams to providing training to the general public. Emerging roles are surfacing in all arenas served by health sciences libraries: educational, clinical, research and administration. more...

This e-books brings together six papers on bibliometrics, or the quantitative study of publications, that have been written by people who have been working with the Bibliometrics Research Group (BRG) at City University, London, UK during the years 2001-04. more...

Sketches the legislative underpinning to advances in the area of library disability service provision, and points out the role of the customer service values inherent in the library profession which should not be underestimated as a contributing factor to this story of improvement. In particular, emphasises the need to focus on the human rather than... more...